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Almanac
noun · 78% connection
A book or table, containing a calendar of days, and months, to which astronomical data and various statistics are often added, such as…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, mohammedan, festivals, held, close.
Annunciator
noun · 78% connection
One who announces. Specifically: An officer in the church of Constantinople, whose business it was to inform the people of the festiva…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, mohammedan, festivals, held, close.
Appellative
noun · 78% connection
A common name, in distinction from a proper name. A common name, or appellative, stands for a whole class, genus, or species of beings…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, mohammedan, festivals, held, close.
Base
adjective · 78% connection
Not held by honorable service; as, a base estate, one held by services not honorable; held by villenage. Such a tenure is called base,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, mohammedan, festivals, held, close.
Carene
noun · 78% connection
A fast of forty days on bread and water.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, mohammedan, festivals, held, close.
Cerealia
n. pl. · 78% connection
Public festivals in honor of Ceres.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, mohammedan, festivals, held, close.
Clinch
noun · 78% connection
The act or process of holding fast; that which serves to hold fast; a grip; a grasp; a clamp; a holdfast; as, to get a good clinch of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, mohammedan, festivals, held, close.
Collation
verb · 78% connection
A light repast or luncheon; as, a cold collation; -- first applied to the refreshment on fast days that accompanied the reading of the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, mohammedan, festivals, held, close.
Confine
verb · 78% connection
to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement; "This holds the local until the express passengers change trai…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, mohammedan, festivals, held, close.
Constrain
verb · 78% connection
to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement; "This holds the local until the express passengers change trai…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, mohammedan, festivals, held, close.
Dog days
unknown · 78% connection
A period of from four to six weeks, in the summer, variously placed by almanac makers between the early part of July and the early par…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, mohammedan, festivals, held, close.
Eleusinian
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to Eleusis, in Greece, or to secret rites in honor of Ceres, there celebrated; as, Eleusinian mysteries or festivals.
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Fast
adjective · 78% connection
In a fast or rapid manner; quickly; swiftly; extravagantly; wildly; as, to run fast; to live fast.
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Fasti
n.pl. · 78% connection
The Roman calendar, which gave the days for festivals, courts, etc., corresponding to a modern almanac.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, mohammedan, festivals, held, close.
February
noun · 78% connection
The second month in the year, said to have been introduced into the Roman calendar by Numa. In common years this month contains twenty…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, mohammedan, festivals, held, close.
Folkland
noun · 78% connection
Land held in villenage, being distributed among the folk, or people, at the pleasure of the lord of the manor, and resumed at his disc…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, mohammedan, festivals, held, close.
Furl
verb · 78% connection
To draw up or gather into close compass; to wrap or roll, as a sail, close to the yard, stay, or mast, or, as a flag, close to or arou…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, mohammedan, festivals, held, close.
Hebdomadary
adjective · 78% connection
Consisting of seven days, or occurring at intervals of seven days; weekly.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, mohammedan, festivals, held, close.
